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  1. Re:Bootable on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    I upgraded my mbair from leopard to snow leopard by sharing the snow leopard disk from another mac. Expect I will do the same for lion because my mbair drive is pretty full; there's not enough room to dl the lion drive image.

  2. What a great idea on FAA Wants Your Opinion On Commercial Space Rules · · Score: 1

    Maybe the SEC and the USPTO could take a hint from from the FAA and have public hearings about how we'd like the patent system to work and how we'd like trading things like credit default swaps to be regulated.

    There might be a few other administrations, departments, and bureaus that could do the same.

  3. Re:My name is finally appropriate on AppleCrate II: Apple II-Based Parallel Computer · · Score: 1

    Apple II == 6502 CPU from Commodore Semiconductor

    No, Apple ][ == 6502 CPU from MOS Technologies

  4. Re:won't happen on If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It · · Score: 1

    Work Place Shell. (Sort of like the window manager in X.)

  5. Re:yes, block those illicit contents on The Great Firewall of Europe · · Score: 1

    whoosh, whoosh, and whoosh again

  6. yes, block those illicit contents on The Great Firewall of Europe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While you're at it, herd your sheeps

    could of, would of, I could care less, your wrong

    void main(int argc, char** argv, char** envp) { printf("hello world"); return; }

    etc., etc.

    My eyes, they're bleeding. Help me Obiwan, you're my only hope.

  7. Re:numbers?? on Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War · · Score: 1

    Google + Microsoft = 6200 for 1 quarter
    Google = 6200 for 1 year
    Google = 6199 for 1st quarter and 1 for the second, and ZERO AND ZERO for the last 2 quarters
    Microsoft = 1 for the first quarter....

    Yeah, that could happen too. I don't believe that's likely.

    Man, what is your math score again?

    Higher than your social skills score. I can pretty much guarantee.

    And just for the sake the argument, lets not forget that this is also true:
    Google hire 10000 for the first quarter, and will hire -3800 for the second quarter.....

    Can you spell "wrongful termination"? If anyone is hiring and firing like that you can bet there will be lawsuits. In most of Europe that kind of hiring and firing will bring the government down on you right quick too.

    Did i mention the virtual jobs too? Or lets use the proper term, imaginary (complex) jobs......
    Do you still follow me?

    I know you're apparently impressed with how intelligent you seem to think you are. Is that what you're asking?

  8. Re:numbers?? on Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, let me spell it out for you–

    Google + Microsoft = 6200 this quarter.

    Google = 6200 this year ~== 1550 per quarter.

    Which might suggest that Microsoft will hire the other 4550 this quarter.

    Does that help?

    (No, I'm not the AC that called you a f*cking idiot.)

  9. I killed Sarah Conner on Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack · · Score: 1

    There will be no John Conner.

    Just kiss your *ss goodbye now and get it over with.

  10. Re:I like paying taxes on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    Generally you can speak out against the government, except when you speak out against the TSA.

    Especially don't complain about them while you're in line at the airport waiting to go through security.

  11. It's a sin on Boston College Says Using WiFi Is a Sign of Infringement · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But all will be forgiven if you go to confession.

  12. Will he have to pass a programming test? on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 1

    In order to check in code?

  13. New C++ spec.... on ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft · · Score: 1

    TL;DNR

  14. Re:Diff? on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    As Carl Sagan used to say: "You have to do the experiment."

    You could diff the two source trees yourself to answer this question.

    After you've done it, I think you'll better understand why it's not particularly useful.

  15. Re:Well that's ominous on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...fewer of their patches will be incorporated upstream, so they have to spend more work porting them into each new release; they'll have less community review and bugfixes in their patches; and they're going to alienate the community.

    I guess it's not well known, even though it's not a secret. Red Hat pushes their fixes upstream first. After, and only after, they are accepted upstream are they then incorporated into the RHEL kernel.

  16. Re:bitcoin-alt is a full client implementation on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 1

    Drachmas? You're a little behind the times. Greece switched to the Euro in 2002. If you've got Drachmas, I'll buy them from you at par with Zimbabwe Dollars.

    And what's a krónur? No currency I've ever heard of. Are you thinking of the Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian currencies?

  17. Re:Typical on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Look who's on AT&T's Board of Directors (http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5629)

    Why, it's good ol' Gil Amelio – former Apple CEO for those who don't remember their Apple history.

    Now it's all clear why AT&T had its lock on the iPhone.

  18. AT&T paid too much on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    If this is really what led to the sale, and the T-Mobile franchise will really be run as a separate business unit, then watch as that continues to shrink into nothing.

    I was getting close to jumping ship from T-Mobile anyway – not because of the iPhone (or lack of it), and not to AT&T or Verizon – they're all too expensive.

  19. There's a reason I left AT&T. on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 2

    I had AT&T years ago; could never get a signal inside my house. I finally switched to T-Mobile; no problem getting a signal inside my house.

    If I want GSM (so that my phone will work in the rest of the world when I travel (right?)) then I either have to have AT&T, T-Mobile, or one of the MVNOs that operate on their networks. I fear if AT&T dismantles the T-Mobile infrastructure that I'll be back to not getting any signal inside my house. Is my fear justified?

  20. Re:I disagree on CS Prof Decries America's 'Internal Brain Drain' · · Score: 1

    Ditto here. Well, almost---

    Though my daughter has a Biology degree, she doesn't want to work in a lab job and doesn't want to go back to school for a MS or PhD. In the mean time 99% of the jobs for someone with a bachelors degree are working in a lab. So she babysits and does a lot of volunteer work at museums, etc., hoping the volunteer work will eventually turn into a paying job. But I think she's kidding herself about what those jobs will actually pay, if and when she finally lands one.

    Despite the fact that my son is an obsessive gamer and has tinkered with building his own Windows gaming rigs he's just not interested in programming. He took a CS101 course in his second year and was good up to the introduction of recursion -- about halfway though the class -- at which point he realized that finishing the class would require some heavy duty thinking. (He managed a passing grade.) Now he's back to a PoliSci major and Bio minor and has been studying Chinese since high school. He says he wants a job in the State Department, but he thinks I'm kidding when I tell him the State Department doesn't hire very many uni/college grads that only managed a C average.

    I'm not convinced that either one of them will be able to maintain the lifestyle they had growing up with my wife's and my incomes.

  21. Re:rewind 40 years on NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz · · Score: 1

    We couldn't build another Saturn V even if we wanted to, right?

    Using our own 60s tech isn't even an option. And the Ares 1 was going to cost $40B to build, not counting the launch costs.

    I'm glad we won the space race.

  22. Re:Russia better than India? on NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz · · Score: 1

    Why not outsource to India?

    Anything we can do to raise pay and standard of living there will ultimately make it harder to outsource skilled jobs from here. The faster that happens, the better.

  23. Re:sadly, most green tech still not cost effective on Laser Scribing Promises More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    $10,000 inverter? What are you looking at?

    I've looked at covering half of my roof with 16 230W panels (my house is east/west facing.) For that I would need a single $1,000 inverter.

    Under ideal conditions though that would only produce about 50% of what I consume in a day. And conditions will never be ideal. Before subsidies I figure the break even point is around 16 years.

  24. Re:Verily, I am scrod on Unmasking Anonymous Email Senders · · Score: 1

    whoosh.

  25. Verily, I am scrod on Unmasking Anonymous Email Senders · · Score: 2

    wherefore did I ever adopt such a distinctive writing style.